Paper Info
Title
Novel Design of the Converter for an Active UPS Application Based on Marx Modulator Concept with Supercapacitors.
Abstract
A new Marx modulator 4-leg multilevel converter is proposed to replace the well-known 4-leg inverter fed from batteries in Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) applications. The novel design concept for the Marx modulator based multilevel converter is presented and described. Each leg uses 2 Marx modulator modules, each one using an Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitor (EDLC) (also known as supercapacitor (SC)) energy storage bank. The new topology concept enables multilevel operation with five voltage level per phase, allowing high quality voltage and current waveforms, distributed supercapacitor storage and reduction of supercapacitor bank voltage. The proposed converter can operate as UPS or as Active Power Filter (APF), powering non-linear or/and unbalanced loads, while balancing each leg supercapacitor voltage. A control strategy to choose the redundant vector configuration to balance the supercapacitor voltages is explained. Simulation results are presented for a Marx modulator based interactive 40 kVA UPS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-17771-3_36
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Uninterruptible Power Supply,Supercapacitors,Bipolar Marx modulator multilevel converter
Energy storage,Inverter,Uninterruptible power supply,Capacitor,Supercapacitor,Voltage,Waveform,Electronic engineering,Modulation,Engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
553
1868-4238
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Celso Pestana100.34
Hiren Canacsinh200.34
Miguel Chaves300.34
Paulo Gamboa400.34
Armando Cordeiro563.36
Ricardo Luís600.34
Ana Martins700.34
Luís Encarnação800.34
Fernando Pereira900.34
José F. Silva1000.34
Nuno Santos1118924.08